Recently, Lecture Guoyou Huang from BEBC has published his first author review in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces  entitled " Magnetically Actuated Droplet Manipulation and Its Potential Biomedical Applications ".

Droplet manipulation has found broad applications in various engineering and biomedical fields, such as biochemistry, microfluidic systems and drug delivery and tissue engineering. Many methods have been developed to enhance the ability for manipulating droplets, among which magnetically actuated droplet manipulation has attracted widespread interests due to its remote, noninvasive manipulation ability and biocompatibility. This review paper focuses on magnetic manipulation of droplet and introduce latest state-of-the-art research advances of magnetic-response droplets, including MNP-laden droplets, magnetic liquid marble and ferrofluid droplet. It’s also the first review to summarize the approaches and the corresponding principles that that enable actuating the droplet magnetically. The potential biomedical applications of droplet manipulation by magnetic field, mainly in bioassay, cell assembly and tissue engineering, are discussed logically. And it also shows current challenges and future prospects on the development of such scenario.

The co-authors of the paper include Moxiao Li, Qingzhen Yang, Yuhui Li, Hao Liu, Professor Hui Yang and Professor Feng Xu.

Links：http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.6b09017